Cover of Por Estas Calles Bravas

Por Estas Calles Bravas

by Piri Thomas

1967 322 pages eng

Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its Af…

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